Elissa Epel
Health psychologist and author
Elissa Epel is an American health psychologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She studies how stress affects aging and has written The Stress Prescription and The Telomere Effect.
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American Born in Carmel-by-the-Sea, United States
About Elissa Epel
Elissa Epel is an American health psychologist. She is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she is also vice chair. She directs UCSF's Aging, Metabolism, and Emotion Center and is associate director of the Center for Health and Community. Her research looks at the effects of stress on aging. Epel wrote The Stress Prescription and co-wrote The Telomere Effect, a New York Times best-seller.